by Deb Whitehorse | Jun 12, 2021 | 2022, Home Page
Baikal Ice Yacht Racing Website
2022 will mark the 11th year of Baikal Ice Sailing Week, scheduled for March 26 – April 2, 2022. The organizers have released an informational pamphlet with answers to all your questions. Read it here
Every year we try to upgrade this trip, that’s why we ask you to read this manual carefully! We will sail 3 regatta’s, Asian Cup, Russian Championship and Baikal Cup. Also we probably will have sailors from China who will join us at Lake Baikal. Continue reading.
by Deb Whitehorse | Mar 26, 2021 | 2021, Home Page
The final DN regatta of the season is taking place this week on Lake Baikal in Siberia. Follow along on the Baikal Ice Yacht Racing Facebook page for the latest news.
by Deb Whitehorse | Oct 13, 2019 | 2019, 2020, Home Page
Become part of an international community that comes together every March to sail on one of the most remote places on the planet, Lake Baikal in Siberia. Those of you from North America who are attending the 2020 Gold Cup in Europe have an opportunity to get your DN to Lake Baikal via the Trans Siberian railway. Jorg Bohn G-737 explains it all below.
What to Know: Lake Baikal 2020
Going East!
Have your ever considered going to Lake Baikal?
Here is why it’s worth the trip!
The Baikal Short “Love“ Story!
Since 2012 I’ve traveled every year to Siberia and the Far East to go ice sailing.
In 2012, I heard about the Lake Baikal event from British ice sailor, Chris Williams K-1.
The logistics of getting our iceboats to Siberia were solved that first time with help of our Russian ice sailing friends in Moscow and the Trans Siberian Railway. We flew to Irkutsk from Europe through Moscow. We arrived in Irkutsk early Friday morning, one day ahead the event.
A minibus was waiting for us at the airport, thanks to our hosts, and took us straight to the sailing area called “Little Sea“ (Sarma), opposite of Olchon Island, to a place called Uyota. Even though, I was tired it wasn’t possible to fall asleep on that five hour ride. I had never before in my life seen such a wide open beautiful mountain landscape. Thousands of cattle and horses were scattered on both sides of the road and sometimes right in front us. Half way into our trip we stopped for a delicious meal at a roadside restaurant made by the indigenous Burjatien people.
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by Deb Whitehorse | Apr 6, 2018 | 2018, Home Page
Another successful week of DN and Ice Optimist racing has concluded on Siberia’s Lake Baikal. Congratulations to all who competed including North American DNer Chris Berger US5166. Read more on DN Russia.
Asia Cup Results
Gold
Silver
Open Championship Results
Gold
Silver
Lake Baikal Youth Championship Results
by Deb Whitehorse | Mar 27, 2017 | 2017, Home Page
Sailors from Europe, Russia, and North America raced DN iceboats in an annual regatta held on Siberia’s Lake Baikal last week. North American IDNIYRA member Chris Berger US5166 of Chicago, IL won the Baikal Cup on Friday, March 24. CBS national news has been running footage from the regatta. Even the Olympic Channel has noticed DN iceboat racing!
Event website
Photographs from Baikal Ice Yacht Racing
If you’ve stopped by to learn more about ice sailing and want to try it, read our “Getting Started” page. Don’t hesitate to contact us with questions. Join us in “Thinking Ice” and sailing the coolest boats on the planet.
